KJV ORIGINAL
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
I hit you with crop disease and blight. Just when your gardens, vineyards, fig trees, and olive groves were thriving, I sent worms to eat everything up. But even after all that, you still didn't come back to me, says the Lord.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
God's saying he tried getting their attention through hardship, but they kept ignoring him.
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